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Last week she was summoned before Referee Samuel Seabury, ordered up into the witness stand, like any common crook, put under oath, examined and cross-examined, twisted and tangled on her magisterial conduct. Dressed in green, holding herself stiffly erect, the onetime Brooklyn girl answered questions briefly, almost insolently, in pseudo-Oxonian accent. Her inquisitors attempted to show that she was a falsifier of her court's official record, a tyrant on the bench who petulantly bossed defendants around at the peril of their constitutional rights, a dispenser of justice toward women offenders far less merciful than male magistrates...
...near the top of the third column reference is made to the fact that in 1901 Philip La Follette saw his father Robert inaugurated as Governor of Wisconsin, and in 1931 Philip, himself, took the oath of office in the same State...
...charge of the Marine base at Quantico, Va., he soon made a speech to the local townspeople, saying that he would not permit his men to trade with Quantico merchants until every Quantico bootlegger was put out of business. He addressed his men as follows: "You birds took an oath ... to defend the Constitution. Don't let the news stun you, but the Prohibition law is part...
Alfalfa Bill. A "common people's affair" was the inaugural of William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray as the State's ninth Governor. To the "Sage of Tishomingo" and the author of Oklahoma's Constitution the oath of office was administered by his father, Uriah Dow Thomas Murray, 91, a special notary for the occasion. Governor Murray put aside the baggy wrinkled clothes and red suspenders he had affected for his hitchhiking campaign last year and appeared at Oklahoma City in a well-pressed suit, with his shoes shined and his long, scraggly mustache trimmed. Close at hand as an escort...
...Phil." When in 1901 Philip Fox La Follette was three, he watched his father, the late great Robert Marion La Follette, inaugurated as Governor at Madison. Last week on the same spot, without fuss or celebration, "Phil" La Follette took the oath of office which made him the State's youngest Governor. An interested on-looker was Robert Marion La Follette 3rd, aged 4, the new Governor's son, who is already being coached to follow the family tradition in politics...